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Letters Patent No. 79,702, dated July 7, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN UHURNS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, G. R. STEVENS, of Chicago, in the county of Cook, in the State of Illinois, have invented a useful Improvement in Chains; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, rcfercnce being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,

making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a central sectional clevation'of my invention. Figure 2, a plan view of the dasher, removed from the-churn-barrel. The nature of my invention consists in the use of a cone, attachedto the. dash'er -rod at a suitable place to suddenly check the motion of the 'cream after it has been forced through diagonal holes in a winged dasher, which is hinged to a cross-piece, havinginclincd sides for the wings-to strike against, and thusprevent them from coming too closely together when-moving upward.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully comprehend the construction and'operation of my invention, I have marked corresponding parts with similar letters, and will now'give a detailed description.

A B 0 represent a wooden dasher, the centre-piece, A, of which is-rigidly fixed to a dasher-rod, D, and has inclined edges, to which the wings B C are hung, by any common hinges, in the usual-manner. Thesewin'gs have holes, 02 d, 820., made through them, at such angles as will cause cream, forced through the holes by a downward motion of the dasher, to strike" against an inverted frustum of a cone, E, which is made a partofi the flasher-rod, D, and placed such a distance above the wings as will cause the cream, after striking the cone, to pass outward to the barrel of the churn F, from whence it will return under the dasher, by its upward movement,

preparatory to its being again forced through the holes 01, as described.

This arrangement is quite simple, yet it provides efiectual means for giving to cream such an amount of friction as is necessary to speedily separate the particles of butter'from milk, and gather them in a compact form preparatory to beingremoved from the churn. I

' I am well aware that winged 'dashers'have been used before, and'I'therei'ore' disclaim originality asto their invention; but the diagonal holes d, arranged to guide cream against the cone E, I consider not only heir, but a very efi'cctual means of keeping the cream. in motion above-the dasher. V i

I am not particular as to the style or kind of receptacle used to hold the cream, only so that it is arranged conveniently for the dasher to have a vertical reciprocating motion.

It will ,be seen, at fig. 1, that, when the rod Evis being raised up, the wings B G-will fall downward, and have an inclined position, but not so much inclined as to prevent them from swinging back to a horizontal position when being forced downward.

Having thus described my invention,:-wliat I claim; and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is- I I The cone E, in combination with the rod D and winged dasher B C,'tl1 e latter having holes, a? d, ma'de diagonally th ough it, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

e.' n. STEVENS.

Witnesses:

G. L. CHAPIN, A. HAYWARD. 

